Karlin Lillington

Tracking the path of the internet revolution

Alongside the technology sector’s many benefits have come new and insidious threats, damages and dangers

Big Tech may not get everything it wants from Trump

Incoming US president will not be all the tech industry is hoping for once he is in power

It turns out your air fryer might be listening, sending data to China

UK consumer protection advocates Which? found that certain air fryers gather personal data that has little or no relevance to the functioning of the product

Is the Republic’s online safety code up to the task?

Reconciling the GDPR with the AI Act poses issues, but I think they are minor compared to the hard problem of making the new safety code work in any realistic way

Mary O’Rourke laid the critical groundwork for State’s success in tech

No other minister would have had the interest, much less stubbornness, to push through the first undersea fibreoptic cable deal

Do you think online polls are rigged?

Scepticism is justified as these days the online variety is the one almost certain to be wearing the data dunce cap

Everyone seems happy with Apple tax case outcome

The €13bn tax case, while unwelcome, always related to times long past with no real impact for any of the players going forward

Do Musk’s Teslas still fit in liberal California?

If Elon Musk has hurt his car company’s brand, it’s not showing yet

Riots, online safety and rights prove awkward bedfellows

Legislators are struggling to balance protection on the one hand and with the need to avoid disproportionate restriction on the other

Interconnected tech sector paying the price for lack of real innovation

Intel’s struggles, doubts over potential of AI and Google’s humbling in federal antitrust suit all point to a potential inflection point for the sector

Trump’s pitch for ‘crypto-president’ is a merger of the bizarre

Facts and truth can be fluid both in the world of the bitcoin bros and the former president Trump

Don’t worry about our corporation tax revenues, US multinationals aren’t going anywhere

Facial recognition: We’re tilting alarmingly towards normalising sneakier mass surveillance

We have yet to be given clear reasons why we need facial recognition technology even though a Bill relating to it is meandering through our political process

GDPR isn’t the problem, Big Tech and governments are the issue

Too many vested interests have undermined the effectiveness of the EU’s key data protection law